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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

This is kind of the ironic catch of surveillance technology. There's way less people in positions of power and authority that the tech can be used to surveil. Honestly the bourgeois is better far not advancing it and just using old fashioned violent coercion.